Proceedings of the Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBS 2011 (2011)

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978-142444121-1

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1557-170X

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http://hdl.handle.net/10261/121016

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In spite of decades of intense research, pathological tremors still constitute unknown disorders. This study addresses, based on a multi-scale model, the behavior of an entire pool of motor neurons in tremor, under the hypothesis that tremor is an oscillation of central origin commonly projected to all motor neurons that innervate a muscle. Our results show that under such conditions both paired discharges and enhanced motor neuron synchronization, two of the characteristic landmarks of tremor, emerge. Moreover, coherence and correlation analyses suggest that the central tremor oscillator is transmitted linearly by the motor neuron pool given that a small set (7 or 8) of motor neurons are sampled.

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closedAccess

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Modelling studies

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Motor neurons

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Correlation analysis

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Neurons

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Pathological tremors: Brain

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Lakes

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Multiscale models

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A modelling study on transmission of the central oscillator in tremor by a motor neuron pool